viii, 341 pages 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references

The supreme law and its expounders. Making the Constitution ; The Constitution and the court ; Judicial review, history, and democracy ; The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights ; America's "greatest magistrate" ; Judicial biography ; Editing the framer -- The First Amendment freedoms. Liberty of the press from Zenger to Jefferson ; Freedom in turmoil : the Sedition Act era ; No establishment of religion : the original understanding ; School prayers and the founding fathers -- And other civil rights. "Exotic fruit" : the right against compulsory self-incrimination in colonial New York / with Lawrence H. Leder ; The right against self-incrimination : history and judicial history ; Sims' case : the Fugitive Slave Law in Boston in 1851 ; Jim Crow education : origins of the "separate but equal" doctrine / with Douglas Jones

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